It’s 9 a.m. in Hamilton’s lower city, and Dr. Christian Kraeker starts his day with a medical bag in his trunk and a car stereo full of tunes.
Kraeker and Tim O’Shea, another McMaster University doctor, have started HamSmart (Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team), a program where they visit the elderly, the immobile, the addicted, the homeless and others who have fallen through the cracks of the health-care system.
They spend the day visiting people wherever they are, whether at a shelter, a coffee shop or darkened apartments in Hamilton’s lower city. In essence, they are Hamilton’s street doctors.
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